The authorized instances towards Sean “Diddy” Combs proceed to escalate.
With the rapper behind bars after getting arrested final month on prices of intercourse trafficking and racketeering, 120 folks have now come ahead with new sexual assault allegations towards the mogul.
Maybe most notable, and most heinous? One in all these accusers is a 9-year outdated boy.
Diddy attends the 2018 Fox Community Upfront at Wollman Rink, Central Park on Could 14, 2018 in New York Metropolis. (Photograph by Dia Dipasupil/Getty Pictures)
On Tuesday, Houston-based lawyer Tony Buzbee held a press convention alleging Combs sexually abused a large number of minors.
The legal professional claimed one 9-year-old boy was abused after he auditioned on the Dangerous Boy Data Studio in New York Metropolis.
“Other boys were there to audition as well,” Buzbee mentioned.
“All of them were trying to land a record deal. All of them were minors. This individual [the 9-year-old] was sexually abused, allegedly by Sean Combs and several other people at the studio with the promise to both his parents and himself of getting a record deal.”
Diddy poses backstage in the course of the forty fourth Annual Grammy Awards at Staples Heart February 27, 2002 in Los Angeles, CA. (Photograph by Vince Bucci/Getty Pictures)
Added Buzbee:
“We will expose the enablers who enabled this conduct behind closed doors. We will pursue this matter no matter who the evidence implicates.”
The lawyer mentioned his staff had “collected pictures, video, texts,” which might expose, “Many powerful people … many dirty secrets.”
Diddy attends the ceremony honoring him with a star on the Hollywood Stroll of Fame on Could 2, 2008 on Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California. (Photograph by Vince Bucci/Getty Pictures)
These new allegations come within the wake of being accused of internet hosting what he and his buddies known as Freak-Off events.
The federal indictment served final month claims that the artist organized “elaborate sex performances” throughout which girls had been compelled by means of “force, threats of force, and coercion, to cause victims to engage in extended sex acts with male commercial sex workers.”
In line with this authorized doc, amongst provides seized by authorities from Diddy’s houses earlier this 12 months had been 1,000 bottles of child oil.
Diddy accused by authorities of arranging, directing, masturbating throughout and sometimes “electronically recording” the Freak Offs — whereas additionally transporting business intercourse employees “throughout state strains and internationally.
These gatherings had been frequent in nature and allegedly lasted for days.
New York Mayor Eric Adams presents Sean “Diddy” Combs with the keys to town in Instances Sq. on September 15, 2023 in New York Metropolis. (Photograph by Cindy Ord/Getty Pictures)
As of this writing, Diddy stays in custody as a result of he was denied bail on September 17.
He has pleaded not responsible and denied the entire present prices towards him and awaits his standing listening to on October 9.
“That mentioned, Mr. Combs emphatically and categorically denies as false and defamatory any declare that he sexually abused anybody, together with minors.
“He looks forward to proving his innocence and vindicating himself in court, where the truth will be established based on evidence, not speculation.”